David Krutko

Thank you Mr. Chairman. In reviewing the report and the government’s rejection of the 28 recommendations, I think it is like anything else; it is just like reading a book and you take out 28 pages and you say continue to read the book and you’ll get the whole story, but I don’t think you can get the full story with these 28 recommendations being rejected by governments. I think, if anything, it basically eliminates the whole process of due process, allowing people the opportunity to speak their minds, raise their issues, and more importantly, ensure that the public would have an opportunity to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to the Minister’s comments, a lot of times in the House, I think sometimes we lose the perspective of the territorial health care delivery system we have in the North. A lot of the time the focus is on the Yellowknife delivery system. I think that we have to ensure that the people outside of Yellowknife are being taken care of and that we are ensuring that their issues are being dealt with. So I’d like to ask the Minister, at some point can you make a statement in this House clearly identifying the delivery service that your department provides to the...

Again, in my Member’s statement I talked about the lack of services in a lot of our communities. I think the importance that we talk about here, we talk about respite care, we talk about home care, we talk about supplementary health, but a lot of the times people in a lot of our communities don’t have those fundamental services. Like the communities I represent, a large portion of the population are elderly. We want to keep our elders in our home communities. We want to keep our elders close to their families, but, again, they need that important delivery and service and care, regardless if it...

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. Prior to the break we agreed to begin with Bill 12, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act. At this time, I’d like to ask the Minister responsible for the bill if he has any opening comments. Minister of Finance, Mr. Miltenberger.

Committee agree?

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 12, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, and would like to report that Bill 12 is ready for third reading. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that this Legislative Assembly recommends that the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation undertake a regional analysis and policy changes needed to establish a significantly lower maximum rent schedule for public housing units;

And further, that the Minister provide the proposed changes to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure no later than April 1, 2011.

Does committee agree that Bill 12 is ready for third reading?

---Bill 12 as a whole approved for third reading

Mr. Speaker, again, I’d just like to get some assurance and also get the Minister to maybe check into the traditional communities that we do have out there where a lot of people still continue to sustain themselves through hunting, fishing, trapping, and also, like I stated, there is the seasonal economy and people do earn income, basically, on the different activities. I think there has to be an understanding from the regional staff that they really understand what they mean by way of how they interpret full-time employment, because we do have seasonal employment, people do different types of...

General comments. Detail. Bill 12, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 4 inclusive approved